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SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: NLM-9ABFE3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Chocolate brown flint of good quality, serrated implement fragment. A flake with three long parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a slightly concave ventral surface. Very short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect follows the longest straight edge, forming serrations so fine they are more readily felt than observed. What remains of the opposite long edge bears very short abrupt retouch executed from the ventral aspect, forming a further cutting edge. One end of the tool is broken obliquely, with the loss of part of this edge. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC.
Length: 42mm, Width: 22.7mm, Thickness: 8mm, Weight: 7.38gms
Notes:
This distinctive material is occasionally encountered, and is always associated with forms of early [ascribed by this reporter to the later Mesolithic or Early Neolithic] type, and all superbly manufactured with a minimum of necessary effort. The finder notes a significant grouping of this material was recovered downslope from the location of this example, in an area since quarried away. He credibly ascribes this concentration to a camp or working site where imported or non-local material was worked. Other finds of the same distinctively dark brown flint have been reported from the coast near Cleethorpes.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 7000 BC
Date to: Circa 4000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42 mm
Width: 22.7 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 7.38 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 26th July 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM36672
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Bigby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0508
Four figure Latitude: 53.55812828
Four figure longitude: -0.41635599
1:25K map: TA0508
1:10K map: TA00NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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